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jonathan zittrain, the internet is rotting

I think I’ll leave for some weeks or months

One year of each of those 28 lives is in these pictures. What’s the point of our survival if there’s no record of what’s happened, and if we don’t make it, then this will be all the life that’s left of us.

Frank Hurley’s photographs of the Endurance expedition; Shackleton (2002)

+ bonus:

#shackleton #expeditions #film #photography #the pole

dame-de-pique

Photograph of the Belt of Orion taken by Alexander Smith, Dalbeattie, on 2nd February, 1902. Exposure 2 hours 40 min.“

#photography #1900

the-bishop-of-bulleit

“Avoiding doctors, trusting the truth of the body, and keeping an ear open to its voice: this is the best formula for the healthy. Whatever opinion one may hold of the world of health plans, insurance, pharmaceutical firms, and specialists - the person who can dispense with all of this is the stronger for it.” ~ Ernst Jünger

#ernst jünger

jumont-wonderer

“[A] man’s treatment of his own body [...] is as near to his self-respect as social coercion can possibly go; and [...] when that is gone there is nothing left. If coercion applies to that, it applies to everything; and in the future of this controversy it obviously will apply to everything.”

— G.K. Chesterton

#this was about prohibition btw

ltwilliammowett

Sailors’ Rights Flask (Turtle Whimsy), c.1826–32

It was intended to be a whimsy and most likely never served a functional purpose. The back of the turtle depicts a sailing ship, and the phrase “Free Trade and Sailors Rights,” a popular political slogan during the War of 1812, runs around the edge. The mold for this flask was made in support of the war, but this turtle was undoubtedly made later.

#sea #america #early 19th century